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475</p> | |||
<p>Hendon Middlesex Oct. 31.<hi rend="superscript">s</hi> 1793</p> | |||
<p>Dear Sir<lb/> | |||
I have just received from M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Philip Metcalf a letter<lb/> | |||
dated: Brighton 29 Oct. in which are these words — "I have heard from<lb/> | |||
my Brother, that they mean to erect a New Jail at Bury. Now is<lb/> | |||
"your time to apply to Sir Charles Bunbury who is "on the spot, & I<lb/> | |||
"hope has some of your plans."</p> | |||
<p>Having this legal notice of the measure, for which I<lb/> | |||
am much obliged to our friend's attentive Zeal, I can do no otherwise<lb/> | |||
then trouble you with this letter, to say that I have put myself in a<lb/> | |||
<hi rend="underline">state of permanent requisition</hi>, ready to pay the promptest & most<lb/> | |||
punctual obedience to any commands with which you may think<lb/> | |||
fit to honour me in relation to the subject. With regard to any<lb/> | |||
thing that is personal to myself, my wishes are abundantly gratified<lb/> | |||
by the national Establishment: but for the benefit of the<lb/> | |||
of the County, should my humble endeavours prove successful in<lb/> | |||
its service, my ambition goes to no less then the becoming, under<lb/> | |||
the auspices of Sir Charles Bunbury, Jailor, as Lord Kenyon <add>is</add></p> | |||
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1793-10-31
473
475
Hendon Middlesex Oct. 31.s 1793
Dear Sir
I have just received from Mr Philip Metcalf a letter
dated: Brighton 29 Oct. in which are these words — "I have heard from
my Brother, that they mean to erect a New Jail at Bury. Now is
"your time to apply to Sir Charles Bunbury who is "on the spot, & I
"hope has some of your plans."
Having this legal notice of the measure, for which I
am much obliged to our friend's attentive Zeal, I can do no otherwise
then trouble you with this letter, to say that I have put myself in a
state of permanent requisition, ready to pay the promptest & most
punctual obedience to any commands with which you may think
fit to honour me in relation to the subject. With regard to any
thing that is personal to myself, my wishes are abundantly gratified
by the national Establishment: but for the benefit of the
of the County, should my humble endeavours prove successful in
its service, my ambition goes to no less then the becoming, under
the auspices of Sir Charles Bunbury, Jailor, as Lord Kenyon is
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